Vicksburg's Long Shadow

In this highly-anticipated new work Christopher Waldrep takes a fresh look at how the Vicksburg campaign was fought and remembered. He begins with a gripping account of the battle deftly recounting the experiences of African-American troops fighting for the Union. Waldrep shows how as the scars of battle faded the memory of the war was shaped both by the Northerners who controlled the battlefield and by the legacies of race and slavery that played out over the decades that followed.